Entries tagged with “NYC” from The Manhattan College Engineer

New York City is indisputably an urban environment. As such, urban runoff is a leading cause of impairment to its rivers and streams.   Large cities have high percentages of impervious surfaces such as roads and parking lots.  

Collapsing bridges, overcrowded roadways, failing levees; it's all apart of the ever declining infrastructure. In August the media nationally broadcasted the collapse of the I-35W Minneapolis bridge and called it a disaster. Unfortunately, what the media fails to convey to the public is that for the past decade America's infrastructure has been failing on many levels.